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CLASS X.—MINES DEPARTMENT— continued.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

'.tern 18: 7-88. VOTE No. 10— continued. B.—GEOLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 1887-88. Total number of officers ... 8 1 2 3 4 Salaries — Analyst Clerk and Curator (also Meteorological Observer anc Statistical Clerk £64) Assistant Geologist "Weather Reporter (also Examiner of Masters anc Mates £100) Draftsman Museum Assistant and Librarian Field Assistant Messenger and Keeper 400 350 345 300 240 225 190 125 5 6 7 8 Other Chaeges— Field Expenses and Special Surveys Meteorological Stations and Time Ball Observatory Intercolonial Weather Exchange Contingencies 2,175 9 10 11 12 800 300 80 200 Total— Geological and Meteoeological 1,380 C—MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 3,555 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 Othee Chaeges— Rewards for Discovery of New Goldfields ... Local Museums of Specimens Maintenance and Management of "VVater-races—■ Nelson Creek Waimea-Kumara Maintenance, Kumara Sludge-channel Argyle, Charleston Rent of Tokatea Block To defray cost of lectures by Professor Black and others in the principal mining centres throughout the Colony, and for Schools of Mines—contribution of£lfo/£l Removal of bodies, Hatter's Terrace, £1 for £1 subsidy Erection of shelter huts To give effect to recommendations of the Goldfields Committee — School of Mines, Otago University Aids to prospecting and rewards for mineral discoveries Geological surveys, extra field-work, &c, explorations... Assistance for plant for testing minerals ... Contingencies "and Mining Inspector's Travelling Expenses 2,000 350 1,200 2,700 0,200 400 120 3,C00 50 160 9 10 500 11 12 13 14 15 2,500 500 1,600 2,000 Less estimated saving ... 23,280 3,435 Total— Mis cell aneotts 19,845 Total Vote No. 10 ... 25,548 TOTAL CLASS X. ■ • » £25,548